Local control has become a burning issue in Lansing among lawmakers. A set of aggregate mining bills under consideration by the House Committee on Regulatory Reform is drawing significant attention.

State lawmakers are once again seeking to remove local control over gravel mining operations. A series of House bills introduced earlier this month would give the Michigan Department of Environment, ...

After three delays, a plan to mine gravel east of the old sugar factory in Sterling was approved by the Logan County Commissioners on Tuesday. When the matter was last brought to them on Jan. 17, the ...

CHARLEVOIX — Members of the Bay Shore community and Hayes Township hosted a public meeting on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Charlevoix Public Library to air concerns over gravel mining and its effects on ...

Mining companies that produce gravel, sand and other aggregate have been pushing for years for a law that changes who approves permits for their operations. Now, they're trying again. New legislation ...

Lansing — A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers are resurrecting a proposal to transfer oversight of aggregate mining permits and operations from local communities to state regulators amid a ...

Utah has been the fasting growing state in the nation, with a hardy population increase of nearly 24% since 2010. With that growth rate comes the need for new housing, new roads and other necessary ...

LANSING — A not-in-my-backyard fight over opening new mines to source aggregates for Michigan road and bridge projects is back before lawmakers, with a coalition of industry groups and labor unions ...

Lansing — The Democratic-controlled Michigan House has pressed pause on a vote on long-debated legislation that would remove local control over gravel mining permits as the road construction industry ...

Kim Fary’s home in Bay Shore is a modest place. The 900-square-foot house has everything she needs – and nothing more. “We just live very simple, and that’s the way I want it,” Fary said. “I’m not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a century of resource extraction and environmental destruction along the San Joaquin River near Fresno could’ve been ...